Jack Kerouac

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    I heart Scout Niblett wrote:
    jecica wrote:
    I read my first Kerouac book recently, On the Road and it drove me crazy. It was the unedited version with no paragraphs or punctuation.


    don't read 'Requiem For A Dream' if ya don't like that haha

    aaah selby.... what a genius. 8-)
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  • Attaway77
    Attaway77 Posts: 3,703
    edited November 2013
    Just watched "Big Sur"…. I liked it, if your familiar with the book then I think you'll dig this movie. Does a good job painting a visual picture of the words he wrote/feeling during that period…. Definitely liked this one better then "On the Road" movie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w71t2lFXDU
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    Attaway77 wrote:
    Just watched "Big Sur"…. I liked it, if your familiar with the book then I think you'll dig this movie. Does a good job painting a visual picture of the words he wrote/feeling during that period…. Definitely liked this one better then "On the Road" movie.

    Oh man, if only I could be transported by to the late 40's through early 60's and be in Big Sur...the people who hung out there-- Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton... wow!
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  • Attaway77
    Attaway77 Posts: 3,703
    brianlux wrote:
    Attaway77 wrote:
    Just watched "Big Sur"…. I liked it, if your familiar with the book then I think you'll dig this movie. Does a good job painting a visual picture of the words he wrote/feeling during that period…. Definitely liked this one better then "On the Road" movie.

    Oh man, if only I could be transported by to the late 40's through early 60's and be in Big Sur...the people who hung out there-- Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton... wow!

    It's amazing how people don't really look back at a lot of these authors/writers/poets/etc and realize what great stuff they were writing. Of course everybody knows about HST the most, he was more visible and vocal and became more famous in his day and after, but those before him were just as fucked up on drugs and life like the next person which led to some great stuff published, just a different era on how to express it...
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    Attaway77 wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Attaway77 wrote:
    Just watched "Big Sur"…. I liked it, if your familiar with the book then I think you'll dig this movie. Does a good job painting a visual picture of the words he wrote/feeling during that period…. Definitely liked this one better then "On the Road" movie.

    Oh man, if only I could be transported by to the late 40's through early 60's and be in Big Sur...the people who hung out there-- Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton... wow!

    It's amazing how people don't really look back at a lot of these authors/writers/poets/etc and realize what great stuff they were writing. Of course everybody knows about HST the most, he was more visible and vocal and became more famous in his day and after, but those before him were just as fucked up on drugs and life like the next person which led to some great stuff published, just a different era on how to express it...

    Oh, for sure. Really an amazing, fertile, creative period. Yeah, these people paved the way for HST just as F. Scott Fitzgerald (just finished reading his heart-breaking Tender is the Night), D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Jack London, and Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and others paved the way for them. And most of them were also fucked up on booze and drugs and life. The "tortured genius" thing is overstated sometimes but maybe only because it's so true.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    Oh, but then there's Harper Lee. Pretty much a together person, one book only, out the park. Fucking amazing!
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